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POCAHONTAS: The Story of a Good Indian. 

1595 SHE was born many, many years ago, tradition says in 
to 1595, in Old Virginia, and she was the daughter of a very 
1617 great man in those days—an Indian Chieftain called Pow¬ 
hatan. And when the little maid was twelve years of age, 
one Captain John Smith—you have heard of him, haven’t you?— 
fell into the hands of Powhatan and because Captain John was not 
so popular with the Red Men as he might have been, they proceeded 
to show their dislike of him by putting his head upon a great wooden 
block to brutally knock it off. But just at the critical moment the 
little Indian Maid rushed in between the victim and his savage exe¬ 
cutioner and by her childish eloquence persuaded her parent to 
spare the life of Captain John. From that time on she was a great 
friend of the English settlers in Virginia and we all know how when 
the little Indian Maid was eighteen years of age she married the 
courtly and kindly John Rolfe and was baptized by the name of 
Rebecca. And that is a name we never remember her by, but prefer 
to think of her by her beautiful native name—a name celebrated in 
history and story and song—the good little Indian POCAHONTAS. 
Her marriage brought peace to the distressed Colony and in 1616 the 
little Indian Maid went to England, was presented to the Court and 
met many, many fair ladies and gallant gentlemen—yet none more 
fair than she, none more gallant than her husband. In 1617, just 
when she was about twenty-two years old, her life came to an end. 
But she left a little son and from him many of the proudest families— 
the F. F. V.’s—trace their descent. 

And because this little Indian Maid stood for the best of the native 
product of Old Virginia, her name has been associated with the best 
natural products of our country, and the word POCAHONTAS 
whenever we see it associated with anything always means to us— 
BEST. 


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POCAHONTAS: The Story of a Good Coal. 

1863 MAJOR Jed Hotchkiss, of Staunton, Virginia, was a soldier 
to serving on General Lee’s Staff in the Confederate Army, 
1915 during the terrible times of our great Civil War. During 
the War he first noticed the rich deposits of coal which lay 
under the Eastern base of Flat Top Mountain and while it was in a 
series that is practically devoid of merchantable coal in the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Regions, yet Major Hotchkiss with trained eye and geologic 
knowledge saw that this great region contained an immense area 
of valuable coal, needing only development and transportation facili¬ 
ties to bring it to the markets of the world. He was one of the 
leaders of the Flat Top Coal Land Association, the corporation that 
brought about the building of the splendid Norfolk & Western Rail¬ 
way System into and through the Coal Fields and which first opened 
up to the market one of the best fields of Steam Coal in the world. 

And because these now famous Coal Fields produced the best 
Steam Coals in the world, they became known as the POCAHONTAS 
Coal Fields and have carried the fame and name of Pocahontas to 
the farthermost parts of the earth. 



Pocahontas Saving the Life of Captain John Smith 


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A Pocahontas Mine 


WEST VIRGINIA: Its Coal Fields. 

It is within the memory of many still living when that portion of 
Virginia, which we now find on the maps as West Virginia, was con¬ 
sidered as one of the poorest States in the country. There was some 
attempt at agriculture in a portion of the State; but the greater part 
was mountainous and inhabited by people whose lives were lived in 
the simplest manner and whose wealth was practically nil. 

The great strides made by West Virginia have been due to the 
opening up of its vast Coal Fields. How vast are these Coal Fields 
will best be understood when we state that of the 24,022 square miles 
of the State the Coal Fields occupy 17,000 square miles. 

The West Virginian Coal Fields belong to the Appalachian region 
and nearly all of the production comes from seven principal Mining 
Districts—three in the northern part of the State and four in the 
southern part of the State. The three in the Northern Field are the 
Fairmount, the Elk Garden, and the Philippi; while the four in the 


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Southern Field are the New River, the Kanawha, the Big Sandy, and 
the world-famous POCAHONTAS. 

And now, while we dislike statistics just as much as you do, in 
order to give you some idea of the tremendous growth of the Coal 
Industry in West Virginia, we are obliged to give you some figures 
and when you come to analyze them you will find they make mighty 
interesting reading, despite the fact that they are statistics. 

From 1857 to 1860 the entire amount of Bituminous Coal pro¬ 
duced in the United States was 4,849,899 long tons. 

In 1912 the total production of West Virginia alone was 66,786,687 
tons, with a spot value of $62,792,234—a good deal more than 1,000 
per cent, greater than that of the entire United States from 1857 to 
1860. Indeed the production of West Virginia alone in 1912—and 
we take this year because the official figures have been published for 
it—was about the same as the entire United States production from 
1881 to 1890! And it was more than the total production of both 
anthracite and bituminous coal in 1877—thirty-five years earlier. 
The coal consumption in the United States has practically doubled 
each ten years since 1825. 

In 1863, which we believe is the earliest date for reliable records, 
the coal production of West Virginia was 444,648 tons, and from that 
date to 1913, both inclusive, West Virginia has produced the enor¬ 
mous total of approximately 820,000,000 tons of Bituminous Coal! 
And that sum total is greater than the sum total of all the coal pro¬ 
duced in all the United States in 1912—much greater! 

These figures show one thing very conclusively, and that is the 
demand for West Virginia Coals—because if there was no demand 
there would be no production; the two going hand in hand. And 
the DEMAND for the coal shows its superior merits; because it is 
equally true if it did not possess superior merits, there would not be 
the great demand for it that there is. These facts are obvious. 

POCAHONTAS: Its Coal Fields. 

“ THE POCAHONTAS district lies in the extreme south¬ 
ern corner of the State in McDowell and Mercer Counties and 

extends across the State line into Tazewell County, Virginia. 


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Pocahontas Coal Outcrop, showing No. 3 Pocahontas Vein at the Mines of 
The Pocahontas Collieries Company 


It produces the celebrated high-carbon Pocahontas steaming 
and coking coal, one of the purest coals in the United States, 
mined from the ‘No. 3’ bed. The production in the West Vir¬ 
ginia part of this district in 1912 was 18,918,860 short tons, or 
nearly thirty per cent, of the total output of this State.” 

Very briefly—and very truly—that is the story of the Pocahontas 
Coal Fields, as told in the “Mineral Resources of the United States 
for 1912, published by the United States Geological Survey.” 

“One of the purest coals in the United States” says the Govern¬ 
ment. That is true. And perhaps just because, among other things, 
it is one of the purest coals in the United States the production of the 
Pocahontas Coal Fields has grown from 60,828 tons in 1883 to 
approximately 24,518,960 tons in 1914. Such growth can only be due 
to actual merit. 

It has been estimated that the number of tons of coal in the entire 
Pocahontas Coal Field amounts to something like 6,425,000,000 tons 


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and that it will take something like six hundred and fifty years at 
the present rate of output, in which to exhaust this vast supply. 

The singular purity of this coal is largely due to the fact that the 
veins are not broken in by “faults” as they are in other fields. The 
various veins are practically of uniform thickness throughout the 
entire area, and because when the crust of the earth was cooling, and 
shrinking and crumpling up, and a general mixing process was going 
on, kind old Mother Nature, for some reason best known to herself, 
did not crumple up the Coal Veins in the Pocahontas Field, but left 
them severely alone. Pocahontas Coal is pure coal—just coal— 
nothing else but coal. And The Field is well defined within certain 
limits. Mother Nature has planted here and there Geological Sign 
Posts and these Geological Sign Posts are what the geologists call 
“Mauch Chunk Shale,” which the geological sharp interprets to 
mean “No Coal Below;” because nowhere in the world has coal ever 
been found below this geological formation. 

And now let us tell you some of the reasons WHY Pocahontas 
Coal for the special purposes for which it is used stands almost in a 
class by itself. 

POCAHONTAS: The Coal With a Conscience. 

Who NOW we don’t pretend to tell you the names of ALL the 
Uses It users of Pocahontas Coal; because that would take a volume 
in itself. But we mention the names of a few nations and 
large corporations which not only have used Pocahontas Coal, but 
have endorsed it. After all, the best proof of the merits of Pocahon¬ 
tas Coal lies in a personal test by the reader of this booklet. 

Pocahontas Coal is used and endorsed by the Governments of 
the United States of America, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and 
Austria-Hungary. 

Pocahontas Coal is used by such well-known concerns as The 
William Cramp & Son Ship & Engine Building Company; the Herre- 
shoff Manufacturing Company; the Bath Iron Works; the Fore 
River Shipbuilding Company; the New York Shipbuilding Company 
and Neafie & Leavie—all well-known Shipbuilders—the Panama 
Railroad and the Canal Commission—the result of whose monu¬ 
mental work we are this year celebrating—the Cunard Steamship 
Company; the White Star Line; the Allan Steamship Company; 


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and—but why enlarge the list? If YOU are a manufacturer and you 
have not yet used Pocahontas Coal make the test for yourself. 

POCAHONTAS COAL. 

Where Besides its extensive use in the United States, Pocahontas 
It Is Coal is also shipped to and used in the following countries: 
Used Argentina, Barbadoes, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Curacao, 
France, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Peru, St. Lucia, 
St. Thomas, etc., etc., etc. 

WHY At the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, during 
Ships which time the bulk of the coal used by our Men-of-War 
Use It Vessels came from the Pocahontas Mines, the Bureau of 
Equipment of our Navy Department addressed one hundred 
and twenty-three letters to Commanding Officers of Naval Vessels, 
asking them to state the trade name of the American Coal they con¬ 
sidered the most desirable for use in steaming and other purposes. 
Of the one hundred and twenty-three addressed one hundred and 
seventeen PREFERRED “POCAHONTAS COALY Why? Be¬ 
cause, among other reasons, Pocahontas Coal— 

Gives best results in speed per ton of coal consumed. 

Gives lowest consumption in pounds used per horsepower. 
Contains smallest percentage of ash and clinkers. 

Gives off less smoke in combustion. 

Requires less working of fires to keep steam pressure uniform. 
Better suited for forced draft. 

Better suited for natural draft. 

Requires less sweeping of tubes. 

Gives more heat and lasts longer per square foot of space occu¬ 
pied in bunkers. 

Is less liable to spontaneous combustion. 

WHY Pocahontas Coal is used by thousands of manufacturers 
Stationary not only in this country but abroad as well. Why? 
Plants Because, among other reasons, Pocahontas Coal— 

Use Is lowest in ash and clinkers. 

Pocahontas Evaporates more water per pound of coal. 

Coal Requires less cleaning of flues. 

Does not deposit soot on heating surfaces. 


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POCAHONTAS COAL. 

Greatest horsepower can be developed from boiler with¬ 
out excessive draft. 

Greatest efficiency of boiler can be obtained. 

Makes less smoke. 

Shows smallest amount of loss in cleaning and banking 
fires. 

Suitable for either hand firing or automatic stokers. 

If stored shows less loss from being exposed to weather 
or air. 

Slack or fine coal is equally as clean as lump—and that 
is something you can’t say of most bituminous coals— 
isn’t it?' 

WHY Pocahontas Coal is and should be used by railroads and 
Railroads that use is based upon its actual merits. Why? 
Do and Because, among other reasons, Pocahontas Coal— 

Should Gives the lowest consumption per ton mile and per 
Use It engine mile. 

Will not stop or honeycomb flues. 

Can be used either with or without a brick arch in 
flues. 

Locomotives not obliged to take coal so often. 

Fewer leaky flues and fire boxes. 

Fires have to be cleaned less. 

Trains make better time with fewer delays on account 
of lack of steam. 

Grates not burned out nor ash pans warped if coal is 
properly handled. 



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POCAHONTAS: Why Our Government Uses It. 

The reasons why the United States Government uses Pocahontas 
Coal can best be shown, perhaps, by some facts and figures that are 
probably not generally known. 

Bulletin 11, of the Bureau of Mines, says: 

“COAL is burned under boilers for producing power, for 
drying various materials, or for warming buildings. The 
most valuable coal, therefore, is that which gives up the 
most heat to the boiler for a given weight burned. The value 
of a coal is indicated by the number of heat units it contains. 
The heating value is expressed in terms of British thermal 
units (abbreviated B. t. u.) per pound of coal, and is deter¬ 
mined by means of a special apparatus called a calorimeter. 

In purchasing coal for any power plant the aim should be to 
obtain a fuel which, all things considered (such as equipment, 
price of coal, and cost of labor and repairs), will produce a 
horsepower for the least cost. 

“The tests tend to show that, other conditions being 
equal, coals of similar composition are of value in proportion to 
the British thermal units, and the determination of these 
units in any coal will give approximately its value.” 

Boiled down, in buying Coal you should take as your standard the 
British thermal unit, and the coal containing the greatest number of 
heat units, all else being equal, is the coal that will produce you the 
maximum of results at the minimum of cost. 


Now let us take this question of Heat Units. How does Poca¬ 
hontas Coal—the Coal the United States Geological Survey calls 
“one of the purest coals in the United States”—compare with other 
coals? 

On Page 18 are some figures from Bulletin 11, quoted above, 
giving analyses of coals delivered to the Government under con¬ 
tract, showing the British thermal units in the dry coal. Remem¬ 
ber, these are Government figures: 


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LOCALITY B. t. u. 

Dry Coal 

Pittston, Pennsylvania. 11,680 

Peoria County, Illinois. 11,903 

St. Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. 11,912 

Englevale, Kansas. 12,246 

Vermilion County, Illinois. 12,652 

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania . 13,348 

Cherokee and Crawford Counties, Kansas. 13,460 

Jefferson County, Alabama. 14,030 

Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. 14,477 

Jefferson County, Pennsylvania . 14,480 

Somerset County, Pennsylvania. 14,646 

Cambria County, Pennsylvania . 14,708 

POCAHONTAS (Run of Mine. For Panama 

Railroad). 14,898 

POCAHONTAS (Run of Mine. For Toledo, 

Ohio, Custom House). . . .. 15,157 


These figures speak for themselves. 

Our own analyses of Coal from the Pocahontas Field show the 


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Is it to be wondered that Pocahontas Coal is used as a standard 
by the United States Geological Survey from which to grade steam 
coals? 

The analyses shown above will hold good practically throughout 
the entire Pocahontas Field. 

High in Heat Units—Low in Ash—Long in Flame—Little Smoke 
and Perfect Combustion are among the reasons which make Poca¬ 
hontas Coal THE BEST STEAMING COAL IN THE WORLD . 

POCAHONTAS: A Smokeless Coal. 

The fate of Nations has often turned upon seemingly insignificant 
things. 

Cardinal Wolsey once wrote a letter. He used the words “I and 
My King,” instead of “My King and I.” Somehow or other—it 
matters not how at this time—the letter fell into the hands of the 
King. We all know what happened to the Cardinal and how the 


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history of England was changed by the place of a pronoun in a sen¬ 
tence of four words. 

So, too, the history of our own country was affected by a seemingly 
small thing. Not many people know that at the time of the naval 
battle off Santiago, in the late Spanish War, Admiral Cervera’s Fleet 
was located because of the immense amount of smoke that poured out 
of the smoke stacks of the ships. 

An American naval man was asked what were the advantages of 
Smokeless Coal in the Navy. His reply was that in the event of 
“trouble” if one fleet used Smokeless Coal and the other used Coal 
that gave a great deal of smoke, it might determine the conflict. 
And he mentioned the fact that had the Spanish Fleet been using 
Pocahontas Smokeless Coal, it would probably have escaped the 
attention of Admiral Schley, and the History of the Spanish-American 
War might have been written vastly different. 

A Battleship is not easily seen at a distance. Its color is neutral. 
Indeed the first indication we have of any steamship on the sea is its 
smoke. The advantages in warfare lie with the ship that can conceal 
its presence from the enemy for the longest time—and the vessel 
which uses Pocahontas Smokeless Coal has an advantage over the 
vessel that uses other grades of coal. 

Nor does the advantages of a Smokeless Coal cease here. “The 
Smoke Nuisance” is one that we read about in our daily papers. 
Commissions and Chambers of Commerce and Committees galore 
have been appointed to investigate it and endeavor to do something 
to abate the nuisance. Simple as it may seem, the abatement of the 
smoke nuisance can only be accomplished by the use of a Smokeless 
Coal. No one ever heard of “The Smoke Nuisance” where Poca¬ 
hontas Coal was used exclusively. 

Railroads, too, find it to their advantage to use Pocahontas 
Smokeless Coal. Many an accident has occurred because a heavy 
smoke, pouring from the engine, has prevented the engineer from seeing 
the signals. 

The Committee on Smoke Abatement and Electrification of 
Railway Terminals in Chicago made a test of a Santa Fe switching 
engine in that city. Tests were made with both Pocahontas and 
Illinois Coals. Smoke density was measured on the basis of the 


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Ringelmann chart, and in addition to this two other terms were 
used—“white,” meaning the absence of ANY color to the exhaust 
at the time of observation, and “clear” when neither smoke nor 
exhaust could be seen—nothing but a colorless heat vapor being 
driven off. 


A full day’s run with each of the Coals showed the following 


results: 


Clear 

Pocahontas Smokeless. . 42% of the time 


White Any grade of 

34% of the time smoke shown only 
24% of the time 


Illinois Coal. 


2% of the time 18% of the time 


“Smoke” 80% 
of the time 


Smoke, of course, means imperfect combustion. Whatever goes 
up in smoke is wasted—altho paid for. The less smoke the more 
perfect the combustion—the more the user gets for his money in 
actual results—actual heat units which are utilized for his purposes. 

The test above given showed this very clearly. The coal con¬ 
sumption when the Pocahontas Smokeless Coal was used was only 
386 pounds an hour and with the Illinois Coal it was 457 pounds per 
hour. That means, in other words, that the rate of evaporation 
with the former was 9 pounds of water for every pound of coal used 
and with the latter only 7.6 pounds of water with every pound of 
coal used. 


Pocahontas Smokeless Coal is low in volatile matter and because 
it is low in volatile matter it is a Smokeless Coal. 

Bulletin 1 of the Bureau of Mines, of the U. S. Department of 
the Interior, gives a table of tests of steaming tests of various coals. 
The following is taken from this Bulletin: 

Volatile Matter 


COAL in Dry Coal 

(per cent.) 

Pocahontas Smokeless. 20.8 

Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 32.9 

(Pittsburg Bed) 

Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. 30.4 

Ziegler, Franklin County, Illinois. 33.0 

Carbon County, Wyoming. 45.4 

Uinta County, Wyoming. 43.4 

Sheridan District, Wyoming. 43.8 

Wood County, Texas. 41.6 


In another table in this same Government Publication it appears 
from Government tests of Coals from Illinois, Pennsylvania, West 


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Virginia, Wyoming, POCAHONTAS and Utah that POCAHONTAS 
showed the lowest percentage of volatile matter and the lowest per¬ 
centage of ash. 

For both economy, safety and efficiency Pocahontas Smokeless 
Coal presents unusual advantages. 

POCAHONTAS: Its Coke Industry. 

Next to Pennsylvania, West Virginia possesses more wealth in 
supplies of coking and other high-grade coals than any other state. 

In the words of the United States Geological Survey— 

“ THE Flat Top region is drained by the upper portions of 
New, Guyandotte, and Big Sandy Rivers, and includes the 
ovens in West Virginia, which belong to the Pocahontas Coal 
Field. The Pocahontas district is by far the most important 
and bears the same relation to the production of West Virginia 
that the Connellsville district bears to that of Pennsylvania. 

The output of the Pocahontas district averages somewhat 
more than fifty per cent, of the total coke production of the 
State. ” 

As we have remarked before, great growth shows an equally great 
demand —and demand is based upon merit. 

The increase in the production of Pocahontas Coke has been 
brought about by reason of the superior character of that produc¬ 
tion. 

The first coke made in the Pocahontas Field was in 1883, at which 
time there were only 200 Beehive ovens, the shipments for that year 
being 19,805 gross tons. In 1912 the Flat Top (Pocahontas) district 
had 11,280 ovens and produced 1,185,978 short tons. 

Pocahontas Coke possesses the following advantages: 

LOWEST in ash. 

LOWEST in sulphur. 

LOWEST in phosphorus. 

HIGHEST in Fixed Carbon. 

PUREST made for Blast Furnace use. 

BEST Blast Furnace Fuel made for Bessemer Manufacture. 

BEST Foundry Coke due to low sulphur and little ash. 

SUPERIOR as a crushed Coke for purely domestic use. 


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Pocahontas Coke is Pure—it is Hard—it is Strong—Resistant 
Against Abrasion—and is made out of Pocahontas Coal, the coal being 
neither crushed nor washed, but going direct into the Ovens from the 
Colliery. 

ANALYSES OF POCAHONTAS COKE. 


Poole, 
“Calorific 
Value of 
Fuels.” 


Moisture. 0.66 

Fixed Carbon. 92.82 

Volatile Matter. . . 0.66 

Sulphur. 0.55 

Ash. 4.91 

Phosphorus. 


Mineral 
Resources 
of “U. S.,” 

U. S. Geolog¬ 

John Fulton 
“Coke” 

ical Survey. 


0.57 

0.345 

92.266 

92.694 

1.028 

0.341 

0.552 

0.63 

5.58 

5.822 

0.0063 


POCAHONTAS: Labor Conditions. 

LABOR conditions throughout the Pocahontas Coal Fields can 
be described as ideal, and just what that means when it comes to 
production itself every person familiar with coal production will 
appreciate. Of all the important coal-producing States, West Vir¬ 
ginia shows the smallest percentage of coal improperly mined, and 
this is due not only to the spirit of the operators, but to the intelli¬ 
gence of the miners. 

As one travels through the Pocahontas Coal Fields he is impressed 
by the character of the miners. No signs of poverty greet the eye— 
no unhappy, dissatisfied faces. Substantial buildings are scattered 
throughout the entire field. Schoolhouses and High Schools dot the 
mountain sides. Clubs for the miners are found everywhere. These 
excellently conducted clubs have billiard and pool tables, libraries, 
baths, etc., and are open to the humblest working-man. 

The Superintendents and Managers are clean-lived men, many of 
them University graduates, who have not only successfully solved the 
problem of mining coal, but have solved as well the greater problem 
of keeping the men contented and happy and securing the greatest 
amount of intelligent cooperation on the part of every employee. 
There is nothing mysterious in the Pocahontas Coal Fields—nothing 
hidden—nothing concealed—except the coal. 


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As a consequence of the satisfactory labor conditions the death 
rate from accidents is very low. The average is one death to 100,000 
tons mined and some mines have lowered this to one death for every 
500,000 tons mined. Every precaution is taken to preserve not only 
the lives but the health of the miners and their families, and such 
accidents as do occur are almost wholly attributable to over-con¬ 
fidence on the part of the injured themselves. 

The Pocahontas Coal Fields are located on and find outlet for 
their products over the Norfolk & Western Railway and its rail 
and water connections, and visitors to this Field will find a splendid 
Railway Service—Pullmans, electrically lighted throughout—Dining 
Car Service of the best—and every possible accommodation and 
inducement for them to visit the world-famous Coal Fields of 
Pocahontas. 

If that gentle Indian Maiden from whom these Coal Fields take 
their name could come back again in the flesh, she would travel on 
steamers propelled by Pocahontas Coal—on trains operated by Poca¬ 
hontas Coal and she would pass through vast stretches of country, 
alive with factories, the power for which is furnished by Pocahontas 
Coal. And when she arrived here in the Pocahontas Coal Fields 
she would find a country teeming with the enterprise of the West, 
the energy of the North and the courtesy and hospitality of the Old 
South. 



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LIST OF OFFICERS OF POCAHONTAS OPERATORS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 

ISAAC T. MANN .President 

W. H. THOMAS .Vice President 

JOHN J. LINCOLN .Secretary 

JAIRUS COLLINS .Treasurer 


SELLING AGENCIES FROM WHICH GENUINE POCAHONTAS 
COAL MAY BE PURCHASED. 

Pocahontas Fuel Co.New York, N. Y. 

The Crozer-Pocahontas Co.Philadelphia, Pa. 

Castner, Curran & Bullitt, Inc.Philadelphia, Pa. 

Flat Top Fuel Co.Bluefield, W. Va. 

Houston Coal Co.Cincinnati, O. 

Wm. C. Atwater & Co .New York, N. Y. 

Pocahontas Coal Sales Co.Cincinnati, O. 

American Coal Co.New York, N. Y. 

Smokeless Fuel Co.Cincinnati, 0. 

Eastern Pocahontas Coal Co.Vivian, W. Va. 

West Virginia Pocahontas Coal Sales Co.Norfolk, Va. 

S. J. Patterson Co.Dayton, O. 

Norfolk & Chesapeake Coal Co.Detroit, Mich. 

Lake Superior Coal Co.Montgomery, W. Va. 

Solvay Collieries Co.Detroit, Mich. 

Bluefield Coal and Coke Co.Bluefield, W. Va. 


Visitors to the Panama-Pacific Exposition can see in the West Virginia Building, Moving 
Picture Scenes of the Pocahontas Coal Mines, Transportation, Loading of Ships and other in¬ 
teresting scenes. 


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